Shirt.



' No. 665,863. Patented 1an. |5, |901.

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SHIRT.

(Application led Aug. 25. 1900.

(No Mdel.)

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM AULD, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,863, dated January 15, 1901.

Application tiled August 25, 1900.

To 1J/Z whom, it muy concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM AULD, commercial traveler,of 14 Lonsdale Terrace,Lang side, Glasgow, Scotland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in male wearing-shirts.

In order that my invention may be properly understood and more readily carried into eect, I have hereunto appended one `sheet of drawings, in the several figures of which corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of reference.

Figure l is a perspective view of part of a shirt, showing the two fronts, the white one in the act of being reversed. Fig. 2 is a similar view, while in this case the colored front is being reversed. Fig. 3 isa section showing that the two fronts while in position overlap each other. Fig. 4: is a detached View showing the manner in which the fronts are kept in position.

In carrying out my invention I construct the shirt A so that it will be provided with a double breast B B', one, B, being white and the other, B', colored, or both white or colored, as the case may be. The one breast overlaps the other while the shirt is being worn, as seen more particularly in Figs. 3 and 4, and the bottom ends rest inside the body of the shirt, and th us the breasts are retained in their proper position, as shown. I provide serial No. 27.974. (No model.)

ar longitudinal slit O in the shirt, which is closed by means of a button d or otherwise when the breasts are in position; but when they are to be reversed the slit is opened out,as shown in Fig. 4, and the reversing is readily accomplished. This construction leaves the lower ends of the breasts securely confined Within but unattached to the shirt when being worn, thus allowing play and avoiding the unsightly bunching up to which they would be liable if attached.

The neckband D of the breast of the shirt may extend the whole width of the front of the neck, as shown, or only partially, and in the latter case the neckband of the one would only overlap the other to ksuch an extent as to leave room for the stud-hole.

I ,claim- The combination of the interchangeable shirt-front flaps B and B', the slotted body part of the shirt extending above the lower line of said flaps, and a fastening for closing the slot in said body portion, whereby said body portion may be closed and secured over the .lower edges of said flaps to retain them in position without any positive attachment to said edges.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM AULD.

Witnesses:

JOHN LIDDLE, JOSEPH HENRY PEARsoN. 

